On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will
officially release the GNU GPL version 3. Please, join us in celebration
as we bring to a close eighteen months of public outreach and comment
in revision of the world's most popular free software license.
Beyond the creation of an improved license, the process of drafting
version 3 has helped highlight vital issues for the community of free
software users. This is a moment to thank both the thousands who participated
by commenting on the license and those who represented stakeholders
through the GPLv3 committee process.
Now, with the release of GPLv3, we will see new defenses extended to free
software. These defenses will continue the long history of fighting all
efforts to make free software proprietary.
Please, join us as we stream live footage of Richard Stallman announcing
GPLv3 from Noon (EDT) at www.fsf.org.
If you are in the Boston area you can also join us at the FSF offices
from 11:30am. Please let us know at <info@fsf.org> if you would like to
attend.
--
Peter T. Brown
Executive Director
Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St. 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

This speech is public and is hosted by the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences. Location: Matthews Auditorium (Room 137), Kaneff Centre, University of Toronto, Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Rd. N.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

This speech will be in French and will be given REMOTELY as part of the "8emes Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre" which will be taking place from the 10th to the 14th of July 2007 in Amiens. Detailed location of the speech: University de Picardie, Pole Scientifique, Amphi Baudeloque, 33 rue Saint-Leu, 80039 Amiens, Cedex 1, France.

Detailed location: Arts Lecture 116, 200 University Avenue West, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. (http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/map_colour.pdf )Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright—to promote progress, for the benefit of the public—then we must make changes in the other direction.

Detailed location: Cinema Utopia, 24, rue Montardy, 31000, Toulouse, France. Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the
Free Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU
operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is
now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.

Location: Auditorium Modigliani, via Scrovegni 30, 35128 Padova, Italy. Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed
to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing
press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer
networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying
for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers,
while suppressing public access to technology. But if we
seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of
copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the
public--then we must make changes in the other direction.